چکیده:
The romance story is one of the ancient and popular literary genres of Persian literature. The aim of this article is to recognize this ancient and popular literary genre. To this end, morphology, which is one of the tools of genre studies in recognizing narrative literary genres, has been utilized. In this article, through the morphology of 22 romance poems, as the dominant and acceptable form of the romance story in Persian literature, the identification of functions, characters, and narrative patterns, and the classification of romance stories have been addressed. At the end, the romance story, as a Persian literary genre, is considered a narrative with an opening scene and 22 functions in which five main characters play roles and follow an almost single narrative pattern. Based on two criteria—the presence/absence of the 'removal of obstacle' function and the method of ending (the process of final functions)—this literary genre has three sub-narrative patterns or three sub-genres: material romance, spiritual romance, and material-spiritual romance.
خلاصه ماشینی:
In this article, by morphologically analyzing 22 romantic poems, as the dominant and accepted form of romance stories in Persian literature, the identification of functions, characters, and narrative patterns, and the classification of romance stories has been addressed.
In conclusion, the romance story, as a Persian literary genre, is considered a narrative with an opening scene and 22 functions in which five main characters play roles and follow a -nearly- single narrative pattern.
2. Literature Review To date, numerous articles have been written in the field of morphology of romantic poems/stories such as Khosrow and Shirin, Layla and Majnun, etc.
However, regarding the morphology of romance stories as a macro-structure in Persian literature, two works have been published so far: Mohammad Rezaei-Rad, for the first time in the article "An Introduction to the Morphology of Romance Tales," attempts to "open a new window in the morphological criticism of ancient tales" and, by "creating methods and symbols, demonstrate the form and process governing romance tales" (1382: 183).
In this article, we aim to use Propp's method and examine the 22 mentioned romantic poems,10 to, in addition to identifying the functions, address the identification of characters, the narrative process, and finally, the definition and classification of the romance story genre in Persian literature.
5. Conclusion The romantic story as a narrative literary genre in Persian literature consists of: a narrative with an initial scene and 22 functions in which five main characters (lover, beloved, / helper, obstacle, and villain) play roles in it and follow almost a single narrative pattern.
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